of a holiday, for instance, we only remember the…
Page 84 of a holiday, for instance, we only remember the high or low or the final part that’s continents pick and rule we also recall two or three other scenes but that’s the lot.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
In the book
The second fault is in the logbook itself, because that remembering self is a careless clerk. It barely notices how long a good or bad stretch actually lasted — a bias called duration neglect — and it judges a whole experience almost entirely by its peak and its ending, quietly discarding the rest. So the story you carry of your own past is not the past; it is a highlight reel edited by an unreliable narrator. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)